Why are there modifiers for three of these clues, but none for the other? If extra asphalt were tossed on my lunchbox, how would my lunchbox be paved? I think it would be "covered with asphalt."

I was wondering just yesterday what a Mongolian tent is called, but it was Sunday and I knew that the answer would not appear in a Monday puzzle. Life is filled with little surprises.

Being to Brigitte ETREPopularly accepted tales LEGENDS [As we have become more sophisticated, old denotations do not always obtain, and connotations change the sense of words. Legends may once have been popularly held as true, but today they are seldom if ever so. In any event, legends are not "popularly accepted."

Sorry for being so negative today --- probably need some of that SWEET HONEY SUGAR offered in today's theme.